Dawn of the Dead
Thursday, January 14
Doors at 8pm; movie starts at 8:30pm
Free

An unexplained plague has decimated the world’s population and yet the dead aren’t dying. They’ve become zombies, stalking endlessly in a constant quest to feed on the flesh of the few remaining living. Time to go to the mall!

The 2004 Zack Snyder version. With motherfunking Ving Rhames.

WILD ZERO
Thursday, December 10th
Doors at 8pm; movie starts at 8:30pm
Free

This is Rock’n'Roll JET-movie! Starring GUITAR WOLF. Thrill, Speed and Stupid Zombies! The great psycho of them all! BRUTALITY OF SCREEN!!!

TRASH and CHAOSSSS!!!!

UNDEAD
Thursday, November 12th
Doors at 8pm; movie starts at 8:30pm
Free

Due to a plethora of circumstances we are rescreening UNDEAD for your viewing pleasure!

You might have seen the British take on the “zombie comedy” in Shaun of the Dead and may be looking forward to seeing the recently acclaimed American film Zombieland, but this Thursday Betalevel will show you how the Australians serve it up with 2003’s Undead.

But don’t let the promise of Aussie slapstick fool you! Those are just the flourishes on what is the bloodiest, gore-filled, limb-strewn zombie film ever made in “the Land Down Undead.”

Zombi 2
Thursday, September 10
Doors at 8pm; movie starts at 8:30pm
Free

This can be a bit confusing. The film is called Zombi 2 in Italian, although there is no prequel. (It was named as such to cash in on the notoriety of George Romero’s original Dawn of the Dead, which was called Zombi when released in Italy.) The American release was called Zombie or sometimes Zombie Flesh Eaters. The tagline is, simply, “We are going to eat you!”

The film was released in 1979 and rocketed the career of Lucio Fulci as a horror director. As with most zombie films, it really speaks for itself. The only thing that keeps popping into our heads as a description is:

In this film, a zombie does battle with a LIVE SHARK.

What more do you need to know?

Return of the Living Dead
Thursday, August 13
Doors at 8pm; movie starts at 8:30pm
Free

Toxic waste zombies? Check. Punk rocker zombies? Check. Naked zombies? Definitely. Half-dog zombies? You betcha.

An inordinate amount of the eating of the brains? HELL YEAH!

Night of the Living Dead
Thursday, July 9
Doors at 8pm; movie starts at 8:30pm
Free

“If there is a phenomenon that fully deserves to be called the ‘fundamental fantasy of contemporary mass culture,’ it is this fantasy of the return of the living dead: the fantasy of a person who does not want to stay dead but returns again and again to pose a threat to the living. The unattained archetype of a long series — from the psychotic killer in Halloween to Jason in Friday the Thirteenth — is still George Romero’s The Night of the Living Dead, where the ‘undead’ are not portrayed as embodiments of pure evil, of a simple drive to kill or revenge, but as sufferers, pursuing their victims with an awkward persistence, colored by a kind of infinite sadness…” — Slavoj Žižek

An Unholy Smackdown… of Literature!

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FRIDAY May 13 at 8pm
at BETALEVEL [directions]
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The apocalyptic war of the undead has begun — and this time, it’s textual! Taste the dark pleasure of an unrepentant rhetorical assault on mortality!

DAVE “Guts” ENG takes on GRACE “Blood” KRILANOVICH in ten judged rounds of brutal undead literary action! Referee JUSTIN “Bones” VEACH keeps the gore flowing!

Before the Title Match: STEPHANIE “Fang” RIOUX frames your facile longing for infinity with righteous lycanthropic fury!

DJ ETERNAL PAIN OF DAMNATION will extend your suffering into the Nevermore!

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Admission is free.
Gambling is encouraged.
Appropriate attire strongly encouraged.

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Zombie: DAVE ?Guts? ENG
Vampire: GRACE ?Blood? KRILANOVICH

Gut Man: BEN “Buffy” MILLER
Cut Man: MILLY “Headshot” SANDERS

Werewolf: STEPHANIE ?Fang? RIOUX

Referee: JUSTIN ?Bones? VEACH
Ring Girl: MATT “Hellfire” TIMMONS
Music: DJ ETERNAL PAIN OF DAMNATION

Coordination: JASON “Doc” BROWN

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